In Year 7, students follow a skills based course in which they develop their understanding of e-safety, develop their computational thinking through practical Python based tasks, understand and calculate binary to denary and develop a website using HTML coding within notepad.

Year 8

In Year 8, students develop their understanding of e-safety in relation to inappropriate content and contact. They gain a deeper understanding of their programming skills further using Python to develop their computational thinking using a range of data types.

KS4

Students can choose GCSE Computer Science as an option outlined below to start in Year 9:

A-Level Computer Science

Examination Board: OCR

The Computer Science qualification helps students understand the core academic principles of computer science. Classroom learning is transferred into creating real-world systems through the creation of an independent programming project. A-Level Computer Science will develop the student’s technical understanding and their ability to analyse and solve problems using computational thinking.

Students will examine the characteristics of contemporary processors, input, output and storage devices, software and software development, exchanging data, data types, data structures and algorithms. They will also examine the legal, moral, cultural and ethical issues that surround the use of computers and software.

Students will understand the elements of computational thinking and be able to use these skills to problem solve and develop programming solutions. Students will be able to construct and use algorithms to solve problems and develop standard algorithms.

Programing Project [20% of total A-Level] – Non-exam assessment [NEA]

Our students will choose a computing problem to work through. The NEA will consist of the following sections to fully develop and test a solution to their chosen computing problem.